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UNINA9910820373003321 |
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Kinnard Roy <1952-> |
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Science fiction serials : a critical filmography of the 31 hard SF cliffhangers : with an appendix of the 37 serials with slight SF content / / by Roy Kinnard |
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Jefferson, North Carolina ; ; London, [England] : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction films |
Film serials |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Lost City (1935); The Phantom Empire (1935); Flash Gordon (1936); Undersea Kingdom (1936); Dick Tracy (1937); Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938); The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938); Buck Rogers (1939); The Phantom Creeps (1939); Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940); Mysterious Dr. Satan (1940); Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941); Batman (1943); Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945); The Monster and the Ape (1945); The Purple Monster Strikes (1945); The Crimson Ghost (1946); Brick Bradford (1947); Superman (1948) |
Batman and Robin (1949)King of the Rocket Men (1949); The Invisible Monster (1950); Atom Man vs. Superman (1950); Flying Disc Man from Mars (1951); Mysterious Island (1951); Captain Video (1951); Radar Men from the Moon (1952); Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952); The Lost Planet (1953); Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955); Appendix: 37 Serials with Incidental Science Fiction Elements; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Destination Moon; George Pal's 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy science fiction film. Usually ignored or casually dismissed in genre histories are the serials, the low-budget |
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